The journal tripleC translated and published a work by Horst Holzer that
deals with theoretical foundations of the Marxist political economy of
media/communication:
Horst Holzer. 2018. Communication & Society: A Critical Political
Economy Perspective. tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique 16
(1): 357-397.
Christian Fuchs. 2018. Postface: Horst Holzer's "Communication &
Society: A Critical Political Economy Perspective". tripleC:
Communication, Capitalism & Critique 16 (1): 398-401.
https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/1029
This paper presents the English translation of one of Horst Holzer’s
works on communication and society. Holzer elaborates foundations of a
critical sociology of communication(s) that studies the relationship of
communication and society based on the approach of critical political
economy. He shows that such an approach relates communication and
production, communication and capitalism; communication, ideology and
fetishism; and situates communication in the context of social struggles
for alternatives to capitalist social forms. The paper is followed by a
postface in which Christian Fuchs contemplates why Holzer’s approach has
been largely “forgotten” in the German social sciences and media and
communication studies, in turn stressing the continued relevance of
Holzer’s theory today.
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Prof. Christian Fuchs
Co-Editor of tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique
http://www.triple-c.at
@fuchschristian
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